Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

ERROR-could not find publication information which should appear in this space.

 jeru0140 jeru0140

Judaea. Jerusalem. 20 BCE to 70 CE. Soft limestone ossuary with chip-carved ornamentation. Funerary.

 36 62 27.5

doubled zigzag frames front of chest metopes within frames encircled twelve-petalled rosettes in metopes zigzag circles encircling rosettes 20 BCE to 70 CE Judaea Jerusalem Ramat Eshkol

Judaea. Jerusalem. Ramat Eshkol.

ERROR: could not find taxonomies file, which should appear in this space.

 Creation Normalized objectDesc/@ana Adding Pleiades IDs to origin/placenames adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.

ΜαρίαΘενου

Maria, daughter of Thenas

Μαρία Θενου

Broken and reconstructed ossuary has low feet and flat, broken lid. Ornamentation, on the chest's front side, consists of two metopes in doubled zigzag framed, each containing a twelve-petalled rosette within a zigzag circle. Μαρία, like Μαριάμη, is a Greek form of מרים. Θένας is a form of the male name Θεένας, probably derived from the Hebrew תאנה, "fig tree." An ossuary found in the same tomb bears this name (see inscription "jeru0141"); it probably belongs to Maria's father.

169 plate 58, fig. 405:F plate 58, fig. 405:L (detail)